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Big Sale On Surprise Cans

Lum comes up with a plan that's even better than what Abner suggests for dealing with the unlabeled cans sitting in the store. His idea is to hold a grab-bag sale where customers can buy mystery cans without knowing what's inside.

Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was produced from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town.

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“Big Sale On Surprise Cans.” Lum and Abner. Radio broadcast, May 2, 1946.

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